Timeline for Question closed for being "opinion-based" but I only asked for the name of a principle
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| Jun 16, 2021 at 23:45 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | There's already a site for this. Note that even that site has rules for how you can ask such questions. | |
| Jun 16, 2021 at 12:55 | answer | added | Karl Bielefeldt | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 13, 2021 at 14:23 | comment | added | gnat | @AlBerger if there are no 2-3 other competent users around to correct this by more appropriate voting then moving to a different site with more of coptent users would be the right to do, wouldn't it | |
| Jun 11, 2021 at 3:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSoftEng/status/1403185282724380679 | ||
| Jun 9, 2021 at 14:27 | comment | added | Al Berger | @Jorg W Mittag Imagine a situation where a competent person asks a question and two incompenent users anonymously downvote it due to their incompetency. A competent person will go to other site and you will remain with two incompetent ones. I have seen such situation on other sites. | |
| Jun 8, 2021 at 10:03 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 8, 2021 at 9:44 | comment | added | gnat | Does this answer your question? On the troubles of naming and terminology | |
| Jun 8, 2021 at 5:07 | comment | added | Doc Brown | ... If I think I had to take them seriously, I would stay away from being active in the SE network at all, and don't contribute at all. | |
| Jun 8, 2021 at 5:05 | comment | added | Doc Brown | @JörgWMittag: if someone asks me politely about potential or actual reasons for a downvote, I would feel myself pretty uncomfortable not to give them an honest (but also polite!) answer. And the number of harsh or emotional reactions against my person has heavily reduced over the years since I have learned to choose my words more carefully when writing a comment. And death threats - well, I never got one, and when, my only reaction to them would be to flag the OPs account for mod attention, and wait until the account gets blocked. ... | |
| Jun 7, 2021 at 15:26 | comment | added | Jörg W Mittag | @RayButterworth: I have twice received death threats from the OP after explaining a downvote. In one of those two cases, I didn't even downvote, I just explained why someone might have downvoted. Votes are anonymous for a reason; people don't vote honestly on the content, if they have to fear for their lives. | |
| Jun 5, 2021 at 22:36 | history | became hot meta post | |||
| Jun 4, 2021 at 14:13 | comment | added | Doc Brown | @RayButterworth: I know all this debate, and I am not a fan of mandatory comments in general. In fact, downvoting without a comment is IMHO very acceptable for many crap questions. And here on Meta, downvoting can simply mean "I disagree" (for example, to a feature request)- no explanation required. But when here someone asks about their own question politely, without any accusations or ranting, and then gets a downvote for their meta question without any explanation, then this could be read as "go away, I don't like it when you reflect about your question". | |
| Jun 4, 2021 at 13:26 | comment | added | Ray Butterworth | @DocBrown, it's a problem on all SE sites. I personally like the rule that any down vote requires either an explanatory comment or a vote to an existing comment. Too bad it's not enforced. | |
| Jun 4, 2021 at 11:45 | comment | added | Doc Brown | Wondering what's the point of downvoting this meta question, without leaving any trace for the reason. It gives me the impression certain community members have completely lost any sense of how to communicate with new members. | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 16:11 | answer | added | Doc Brown | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 10:29 | answer | added | Thomas OwensMod | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 9:10 | history | asked | ibi0tux | CC BY-SA 4.0 |